Maybe a vBulletin 4 AP requires a faster server

m00n

So it's 12am UTC right now, meaning that most of the Europeans and pretty much all of the Amearicans on the board are either at work, university or school. There are 200 users online. Right now Arlong Park loads the pages lightning fast. About 0.5 seconds for a category or Forum and 1 second for a thread. Weird enough the threads keep showing the loading images in my Firefox Tab bar for quite a while after everything that's visible has been loaded.

For the past three days in the late evenings {~10pm UTC} when both the Americans and the European are online, for me the forum slowed down considerably to loading times between 5 and 30 seconds, with about 10% of the pages failing to load on first try. Now this could be my own internet conection, since I'm not using it alone but I've seen a number of complains on the web talking about vB4 being too slow. So I'm thinking it's probably not me being slow. Stuff like this: http://www.freelancer.com/projects/vBulletin/Vbulletin-forum-running-slow-need.html

So in case this is a general problem and not some weird stuff on my side of things, maybe it's worth thinking about a bigger server. I have no idea how much Cosmic is paying for the one we use right now, so I don't know how much more a bigger one would cost, and if it's realistic to get that money together, but yeah… Thoughts?

brennen.exe

Jonas owns and pays for the server. Yeah, vB4 is definitely heavier, but a lot of that should fade as everything is properly indexed and on your end cached. If a few weeks/months go by and we still have slow performance I'm sure me and Jonas can look into fine tuning things. I don't really think a faster server will help, however, as the server itself isn't using all that much of the system resources.

Fire-Fist

can it be cause of some vb mod/addon that we are having slow server? sometimes these things are not optimized enough

brennen.exe

That's definitely possible, but at least for me I don't see any slow performance. Any and all times it has run slower that vb3 did I have been doing something on the backend. I am keeping an eye out for that though. For two months I tested this exact setup using a backup from January, so we were running both vB3 and vB4 simultaneously and during that time I never had any performance issues with vB4. There were at most five people on the demo site at one time, sure, but if it were the mods causing problems you'd think I would have noticed at some point.

IrinaKasper

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